Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Chromium web browser. CVE-2013-2881 Karthik Bhargavan discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin Policy in frame handling. CVE-2013-2882 Cloudfuzzer discovered a type confusion issue in the V8 javascript library. CVE-2013-2883 Cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in MutationObserver. CVE-2013-2884 Ivan Fratric of the Google Security Team discovered a use-after-free issue in the DOM implementation. CVE-2013-2885 Ivan Fratric of the Google Security Team discovered a use-after-free issue in input handling. CVE-2013-2886 The chrome 28 development team found various issues from internal fuzzing, audits, and other studies.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 28.0.1500.95-1~deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 28.0.1500.95-1. We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.

Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web.

chromium-browser on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2732.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25